Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 114, The Curse Comes

PS: You don’t have to be on the chessboard to win.

On that night in December, Uesugi Sosetsu was working the midnight oil at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University. Professor Okochi had gone home, and he was sitting alone in his office, quietly reading books and writing his graduation thesis.

It took Uesugi Sosetsu more than two weeks to finish the first draft of his graduation thesis.

Normally, the graduation thesis requirements for ordinary undergraduate graduates in medical schools are not that strict, and Uesugi Sosetsu does not need to do experiments - he only needs to extract a few paragraphs from the reports on his autopsies as the basis for his theory.

When I checked for plagiarism, oh wow, 80%. When I looked at the authors, oh wow, it’s all me.

So his graduation thesis was easy to write. After finishing the first draft, he wanted to show it to Professor Ohkouchi, but the old professor was not available.

Tokyo Medical and Dental University has recently had a troublesome incident - a patient named Sasaki Yohei died of a lung infection after undergoing surgery by Professor Zaizen of the First Department of Surgery. The patient's family has therefore questioned the hospital, believing that Professor Zaizen's diagnosis was wrong.

It just so happened that a few days ago, Uesugi Munesetsu explained the case in a press conference on national live broadcast, and the family of the deceased also watched it, so the family of the deceased requested an autopsy to find out the cause of death, and specifically nominated Uesugi Munesetsu to do it.

Originally, Uesugi Sosetsu didn't have to care about these things because he had been cooperating with the Metropolitan Police Department before and, in principle, didn't have to get involved in hospital affairs. Director Ukai also deliberately excluded him from hospital affairs.

But unfortunately, Uesugi Sosetsu was in the hospital because he had to write a thesis and prepare for exams. Associate Professor Satomi from the First Department of Internal Medicine brought the deceased's family to block Uesugi Sosetsu and asked him to perform an autopsy.

Uesugi Munen had heard of Associate Professor Satomi. He was said to be highly professional and upright. Like himself, he was not well-received in the hospital and belonged to the same species. So he had to agree reluctantly.

But Uesugi Sosetsu is so good at autopsies because he can communicate with dead souls, but when it comes to actual dissection his skills are just average.

After activating the Death Soul Contract, Sasaki Yohei himself cursed Professor Zaizen as a quack doctor who killed himself due to the ineffective surgery, but no one knew how he died or whether it was a medical accident.

There was no other way but to ask Professor Okouchi for help. The master and the apprentice spent three hours to complete the dissection.

"Uesugi-kun, you may still need to find an assistant who is good at dissection." Professor Okochi sighed slightly when he saw that Uesugi Muneyuki was not very proficient in dissection techniques. "It is recognized by the industry that you are very good at autopsies, but your dissection skills are much worse. I understand that you are very busy. Find an assistant and apply to the Metropolitan Police Department."

"Thank you for your advice, professor. Let's wait until I graduate and get my certificate." Uesugi Sosetsu also felt that it was necessary to find an assistant.

"The esophageal cancer surgery was very successful. The main cause of death for this patient was the spread of lung cancer." Professor Ohkouchi concluded: "It is possible that the diagnosis was misdiagnosed."

"The cause of death was respiratory failure caused by carcinomatous lymphangitis." Uesugi Sosetsu also nodded.

So the master and disciple came to the conclusion that there was indeed a possibility of misdiagnosis.

When Associate Professor Satomi received the news, he immediately reported it, while Professor Zaizen was still in Poland attending an international academic conference.

Dean Ukai, who arrived, looked unhappy. He didn't dare to offend Professor Ohkouchi, so he said with a fake smile that since you, Uesugi, are so free, here is a corpse for you to dissect.

Uesugi Sosetsu had no choice but to continue dissecting the next patient.

This was a man in his forties who died suddenly during sex in a love hotel. His female companion was a 20-year-old girl who worked as a "daddy". They had an improper relationship. What was relatively rare was that the deceased had no spiritual response, but he was obviously dead not long ago.

The result of the autopsy by Uesugi Sosetsu was that the deceased died of "Xia Ma Feng" and the cause of death was ischemic cardiomyopathy. The man himself was old and had unknowingly suffered from arteriosclerosis. When he had sex, the arteriosclerosis caused the heart to enlarge and myocardial infarction to form ischemic cardiomyopathy. He died suddenly about 30 minutes after the end of the sex due to ischemia, hypoxia and necrosis of the myocardial tissue.

The autopsy gave Uesugi Sosetsu a sense of accomplishment.

What? I’m still quite capable!
Uesugi Sosetsu hadn't worked in the hospital for a long time, but he gained something from returning to his job by chance. When inspiration came, he immediately started typing on the computer and continued writing his graduation thesis.

It was already late at night. Except for the inpatient department and the emergency department in the next building, the rest of the Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital had been closed and the staff had gone off work one after another. Uesugi Sosetsu was left alone in the forensic pathology department, flipping through documents and continuing to work on his graduation thesis.

It was late at night and everyone was asleep. Uesugi Sosetsu took out his phone and took a look. There were no new messages.

At this moment, there was a sudden noise from upstairs.

"Boom~"

The voice was quite heavy, and Uesugi Sosetsu looked at the ceiling strangely.

Is there anyone else upstairs?

Hey, working overtime? That’s how hard medical students have to work!

Uesugi Sosetsu laughed at himself.

I was a little hungry, but it was not the right time yet, so Uesugi Sosetsu grabbed the Lucia chocolate milk wafer on the table and took a few bites. The disadvantage of this stuff from the Russian bear is that it is very sweet, but the advantage is that it is also very sweet and can instantly increase blood sugar.

After eating a few more bites, another sound came from upstairs: "Bang~"

Then there was a continuous sound of “dong~dong~dong~”.

Uesugi Sosetsu felt a little strange.

Strange, there shouldn't be many people in the medical school building? Even if there were people working overtime, why would they make such a big noise?
Playing basketball?

After thinking about it, he reached out his hand, dialed the internal phone of the guard room, and asked the guard to go up. How could he play basketball in the hospital?

The phone rang several times, but no one answered.

It's strange. According to the hospital's requirements, service phones like those in the guard room cannot ring more than three times and must be answered, otherwise you will be fined!
After a few more rings, the phone suddenly stopped ringing.

Ok?
Uesugi Sosetsu's hands froze.

He sensed something was wrong.

It's not right.

At this moment, Uesugi Sosetsu's cell phone suddenly rang. It was Miss Minami.

The crisp ringing sound is particularly harsh in the particularly quiet atmosphere of the night.

"Homines homines possunt historiam~condonare"

"Homines homines possunt historiam~condonare"

Uesugi Sosetsu answered the phone: "Hello, Minami-chan, what's going on?"

A familiar sweet voice with a hint of sarcasm came from the phone: "Uesugi Uesugi, I have something to tell you!"

"That Nishijo Yasue! She was the murderer in Chiba Prefecture. She committed suicide the day before yesterday when she was being sent to the juvenile detention center." Miss Minami said with a mixture of confusion and gloating: "The suicide tool was an iron spoon."

Eh?! Uesugi Sosetsu was stunned for a moment and did not respond immediately.

"She committed suicide by cutting her throat with an iron spoon!" Miss Minami repeated, "It's really strange. The spoons in the juvenile detention center are made of iron, but the edges of those spoons are blunt. How on earth did she cut her throat with a spoon? I don't understand for now."

"Anyway, the local prosecutor's office is also panicking and doesn't know what to do. This is a major event that concerns the entire nation! The person died just after the case was sent to the procuratorate and before the court formal trial. I wonder how the local prosecutor's office will explain this time!"

Miss Minami talked to herself for a while, but did not receive a response from Uesugi Sosetsu.

"Hey, Uesugi, are you listening?" She was a little annoyed, thinking, I just learned such an important thing and immediately shared it with you, why don't you even react at all?
"Uesugi?"

Uesugi Sosetsu turned his head and looked around the narrow but bright forensic pathology department, then thought of the noise that had just come from upstairs.

The affiliated hospital is now off work, and there is no one except in the emergency department and the inpatient department next door.

There was no one around, there was no response from the security guard, and strange noises were heard from upstairs.

Now Miss Minami told him that Yasue Nishijo was dead, and it was a very bizarre suicide.

He recalled what Yasue Saijo had said to him.

"I will meet him soon, and you, damn doctor, you will meet him soon too, though not as fast as me."

"It's all your fault! I'll come find you, hello, hey hey hey, I'll come find you."

"I'm going to kill you kill you kill you kill you."

"I'm dying, I'm coming for you, I swear."

"I'll come to you, doctor, I will."

Uesugi Sosetsu felt a little breathless. He then realized that Miss Minami's call not only brought him the news of Nishijo Yasue's suicide, but also exposed his location.

"Minami." Uesugi Sosetsu's voice was a little trembling.

"Hmm?" Watanabe Minami clearly sensed the hesitation in Uesugi Sosetsu's voice.

"Help."

After he finished speaking, Uesugi Sosetsu had already heard footsteps outside the corridor. He didn't have time to mute the phone, so he hung up the phone, left his phone behind, turned off the lights, and went out to the corridor.

After the lights went out, the entire hospital was silent. In the pitch-black environment, only the emergency square green channel light at the end of the corridor emitted a faint light.

There were footsteps coming from a distance.

Being careful with his feet and trying not to make any noise, Uesugi Sosetsu slowly moved out of the Forensic Pathology Department. There was no doubt that the phone call just now had exposed his location, but the other party might not be as familiar with the hospital environment as he was.

Uesugi Sosetsu quietly walked through the corridor and approached the emergency exit. Every time he passed any intersection and turn, he carefully paid attention to whether there was an ambush.

Fortunately, he slowly approached the emergency exit, and Uesugi Sosetsu tried to pull the handle.

"Squeak~~~"

Oh no! The door can't be opened from this side!

And as he moved, the door handle made a sharp sound!

"Doctor, I'm coming to see you!"

The footsteps were clearly audible, the sound of one leg dragging slowly, echoing in the empty cement concrete space and reaching his eardrums.

The steps sounded like a rhythm, reminiscent of the back-and-forth movements of a spider as it stalks its prey.

"Doctor, I'm here to see you."

A dark figure, holding a machete, appeared at the other end of the corridor, following closely.

Uesugi Sosetsu could barely see the person coming in the extremely dim light of the emergency passage lights. His pupils suddenly shrank and his heart started beating wildly!

The person who came was a man! It was the man in his 40s who had died suddenly from a stroke and he had just performed an autopsy today!
However, that familiar empty look, that hideous antisocial smile and that special line.

It's Yasue Nishijo.

She is coming.

She really came to see him!
(End of this chapter)